Dear Donald, Dear Bennett: The Wartime Correspondence of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer

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Bennett Cerf Donald Klopfer

Dear Donald, Dear Bennett

The Wartime Correspondence of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer

Bennett Cerf, Donald Klopfer, Robert D. Loomis

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Random House USA Inc
15 January 2002

Biography: general

Donald Klopfer and Bennett Cerf had been partners in Random House for seventeen years, but Donald decided that he had to become a part of an even greater endeavor-the defeat of Nazi Germany. Not long after Pearl Harbor, Donald, who was then forty years old, took a leave from Random House and joined the United States Army Air Forces. He served for two and a half years, finally becoming an intelligence major in a B-24 group in England.

Donald and Bennett wrote to each other regularly all during that period. Bennett sent Donald long newsy letters about the book business-authors, sales, publishing gossip-as well as about what was happening in New York. Donald reacted in his wise, serene way to Bennett's letters, and conveyed news of what was going on in the war, though sometimes censorship took its toll.

This is nostalgia with substance, and because these letters were never intended to be read by anyone else, they reveal, in a convincing and wonderful way, just how special these two men were and how that specialness was reflected in the company they founded.

By: Bennett Cerf, Donald Klopfer
Introduction by: Robert D. Loomis
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 356g
ISBN: 9780375507687
ISBN 10: 037550768X
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 15 January 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

In 1925, Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer bought the Modern Library from Horace Liveright, and three years later they launched Random House. For more than forty years they personally guided its fortunes, creating one of the most successful publishing companies in America. Cerf died in 1971, Klopfer in 1986.

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“My lucky star is a house—and an imaginary one at that. Rockwell Kent drew it, one day, sitting in my office, and it was adopted forthwith as a trade mark for our publishing firm. We called it Random House because we said we were going to publish anything under the sun that came along—if we liked it well enough. That was in 1928. We’re trying to make the star burn a little brighter each year.” —Bennett Cerf